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Patrick Rodenbush is a Democratic Party political operative, working as of early 2020 as communications director for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC). Rodenbush previously served as assistant press secretary for the Obama administration, spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice,
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Michael Madnick is the chief executive officer of Mountain Philanthropies, a private funding collective that supports left-leaning programs and organizations working on environmental, criminal justice, and redistricting issues. Background and Career Madnick graduated from the State University of New York at Albany and has a law degree from Pace
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The Soros Economic Development Fund (SEDF) is a private grant-making “impact investing” foundation based in New York. Founded in 1997, the Fund is associated with the Open Society Foundations (OSF) created and funded by left-of-center billionaire George Soros, and is part of the OSF Economic Justice Program (EJP).
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End Citizens United (ECU) Action Fund (also referred to as the End Citizens United // Let America Vote Action Fund) is the advocacy and lobbying arm of the Democratic Party PAC End Citizens United (ECU) and Let America Vote (LAV), an organization that seeks to defeat politicians hostile to liberal
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Michael Dorsey is an environmentalist activist and writer, former board member for of the environmentalist group Sierra Club, and co-founder of the far-left advocacy group Sunrise Movement. Sunrise Movement is the lead organization behind the “Green New Deal,” a policy program critics have called a “radical, top-down, socialist makeover
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The Sunrise Movement Education Fund (legal name U.S. Climate Plan Inc.) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and the fundraising arm of the 501(c)(4) environmentalist advocacy organization Sunrise Movement. Both groups are associated with the “Green New Deal” legislative campaign. Background In 2014, Evan Weber and fellow Wesleyan University classmate
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The Sunrise Movement, often referred to as “Sunrise,” is a left-of-center 501(c)(4) environmental advocacy organization founded in 2017. The group endorses liberal and far-left Democratic Party candidates for public office and organizes alongside other activist organizations to support expansive and radical environmentalist legislation it terms a “Green New Deal.” Sunrise
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STG Results (also called Smoot Tewes Consulting) is a Democratic Party-aligned public affairs and political strategy firm. It was founded in 2013 as Smoot Tewes Group by two former Obama for America senior staffers, Julianna Smoot and Paul Tewes.
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The Iowa Policy Project (IPP) is a left-of-center advocacy group that conducts research on areas of the environment, tax and budgets, family issues, and economic prosperity specific to the state of Iowa. It is a member of the Economic Analysis and Research Network (EARN) coalition backed by the labor-union aligned Economic
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The Center on Policy Initiatives (CPI) is a left-leaning advocacy and labor union activist organization focusing on the San Diego, California, metropolitan area. 1 CPI
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Julianne Malveaux is a left-of-center labor economist; professor; author; 1 dean of the College of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Los Angeles; and the president and founder of the left-of-center Economic Education Institute.
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The New Jersey Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) Citizen Lobby is the New Jersey state-level organization of the National Association of Organizations in the Public Interest (NAOPI). 1 NJPIRG Citizen
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North Carolina Public Interest Research Group (NCPIRG) Education Fund is the policy arm of the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group, a left-leaning lobbying group. It produces research papers on energy, environmental, health care, and consumer issues. It is the North Carolina state affiliate of the U.S. Public Interest
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The Merle Chambers Fund is a private foundation funded and directed by former oil and natural gas company CEO, lawyer, investor, and Democratic Party fundraiser Merle Chambers. 1 It was called “Chambers Family Fund” from its founding
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Merle Chambers is a former oil and natural gas CEO, lawyer, investor, and Democratic Party fundraiser and donor. She is also a left-leaning philanthropist whose funding organization, the Merle Chambers Fund, donates to abortion and left-leaning advocacy causes, as well as non-political arts and other entities.
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Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) is an environmentalist think tank based in Colorado. It was established in 1982 by activist Amory Lovins. Lovins has been an opponent of zero carbon nuclear energy and, along with other RMI researchers, has repeatedly criticized nuclear power.
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The Chicago Media Project (CMP) funds and produces documentary films, frequently with a left-of-center political perspective. The organization is credited with providing one-third of the funding for Icarus, a film about state-sponsored athletic doping by the Russian Federation that received the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2018
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Phil Radford is a left-wing environmentalist activist and the former executive director of Greenpeace USA (2009-2014). He is also the founder of president of Progressive Power Lab, co-founder of the Democracy Initiative, a board member of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and a board member of the left-of-center environmental advocacy group Green
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Rebecca Lambe is a Democratic political consultant, and the chief political strategist to former U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV). As a Democratic strategist, Lambe is primarily focused on state and federal policy initiatives and Democratic electoral campaigns.
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Americans Against Double Taxation (AADT) was a front group for local government interest groups, government worker labor unions, and other interest groups that opposed the restricting the state and local tax deduction, better known as the SALT deduction, in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It was unsuccessful
